December 1987 Issue William Hamilton-Dalrymple To Boldly Go Danziger's Travels: Beyond Forbidden Frontiers By Nick Danziger LR
August 2003 Issue William Reeve Love and Literature in Afghanistan The Bookseller of Kabul By Asne Seierstad, Ingrid Christophersen (trans) LR
September 2003 Issue William Reeve Meddling with the Mujahedin The Storyteller's Daughter: Return to a Lost Homeland By Saira Shah LR
July 2010 Issue Hazhir Teimourian Backgammon Vs the Sword Drinking Arak Off an Ayatollah’s Beard: A Journey Through the Inside-Out Worlds of Iran and Afghanistan By Nicholas Jubber LR
February 2005 Issue Matthew Leeming Jewels and Giardia The Gem Hunter: True Adventures of an American in Afghanistan By Gary W Bowersox LR
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